Friday, July 9, 2010

A business reporter from The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, is looking for disgruntled NJ law school graduaTTTes for an upcoming article. Here is your chance to speak with a journalist looking to expose the law school scam in New Jersey. What do you have to lose, TTT Jersey grads?

Hi --

I'm a business reporter for The Star-Ledger (New Jersey's largest newspaper) and I'm looking into a story about disgruntled law school grads. I think it's a story that needs to be told -- about how aspiring young lawyers pay tons of money to go to school, only to come out the other end with few job prospects, if any.

I'm guessing you'd prefer to remain anonymous (please let me know if you feel otherwise). But seeing as your blog as become such a hit, do you know of any New Jersey law school grads who might be willing to be featured in my story?

Hm. Well, hopefully this gets the attention it deserves. I don't think I can take another Holly Hobby notebook-quality student loan expose. There are very serious structural problems with all of post-secondary education, and while law school practices may encapsulate the problem, it is, to be sure, a far-reaching problem.

SeTTon Hall is a true toilet. This has been chronicled by DOZENS of posters on various law school message boards, JDU, TtT and, of course, Big Debt Small Law. They are now charging more thn $45K for one year of tuition.

My law school still has its 2008 graduates' employment numbers up on the site. No statistics publicized for 2009, and I wouldn't hold my breath for it to release the 2010 figures. So, not only are the actual numbers fraudulent, they're intentionally publicizing a misleading picture by using the statistics from before the recession really set in. If you think about it, those who would report their employment likely would have been hired in their second year, fall 2006, or at the latest, the first semester of their third year, fall 2007. Those were much different times.